A Companion to American Sport History

A Companion to American Sport History presents a
collection of original essays that represent the first
comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating to the growing field
of American sport history.

Presents the first complete analysis of the scholarship
relating to the academic history of American sport

Features contributions from many of the finest scholars working
in the field of American sport history

Includes coverage of the chronology of sports from colonial
times to the present day, including major sports such as baseball,
football, basketball, boxing, golf, motor racing, tennis, and track
and field

Addresses the relationship of sports to urbanization,
technology, gender, race, social class, and genres such as sports
biography

Awarded 2015 Best Anthology from the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH)

Steven A. Riess is the Bernard Brommel Research Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University. His books include City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports (1989), Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era, Revised Edition (1999), and The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913 (2011), and Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920, Second Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

“Steve Riess has assembled a cast of experts whose essays
make A Companion to American Sport History the go-to reference for
anyone -- old hand or new – looking to catch up on the vast
and growing literature in this field.”
—Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire

"A trustworthy guide to the innumerable books and articles that
narrate and interpret American sport history.”
—Allen Guttmann, Amherst College

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